Program

All workshop events, unless otherwise marked, will take place in the room “Oude Infirmerie” of Het Pand, on the second floor (i.e. third floor for Americans). A map of Ghent and directions to Het Pand can be found in the Venue information.

7 September

12:00–13:00 Lunch and Introduction
13:00–14:00 Plenary: Jóhanna Barðdal
To be or not to be an oblique subject—that is the question
SLIDES
14:00–14:30 Coffee break
14:30–15:00 Emanuela Sanfelici
On the notion of ‘subject’ in Old and Middle Irish non-finite clauses
SLIDES
15:00–15:30 Esther Le Mair
Locating the Subject in Old Irish
SLIDES
15:30–16:00 Cynthia A. Johnson, Esther Le Mair, Michael Frotscher,
Thórhallur Eythórsson & Jóhanna Barðdal
“Flexibility” in Hittite word order: Subject position and discourse neutrality
SLIDES
16:00–16:30 Coffee break
16:30–17:00 Merilin Miljan, Virve Vihman, & Elsi Kaiser
The powerful mix of animacy and initial position:
A psycholinguistic investigation of Estonian case
HANDOUT
17:00–17:30 Julian A. Rott
Subjecthood and the on-line processing of dyadic psych structures
SLIDES
17:30–18:00 Tori Larsen & Christer Johansson
Could the subject be a big PRO?
SLIDES
18:30–19:30 Reception (Town Hall)

8 September

9:30–10:00 Coffee
10:00–10:30 Björn Hansen
Beyond b-subjects: Testing subjecthood in Croatian modal constructions
SLIDES
10:30–11:00 Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir & Thórhallur Eythórsson
Subjects with weather verbs in Icelandic
11:00–11:30 Roland Hinterhölzl
What are subjects good for?
SLIDES
11:30–11:45 Coffee
11:45–12:15 Brian D. Joseph
One of you is lying:
Conceptions of ‘subject’ in the Ancient Greek and Latin Grammatical Tradition
SLIDES
12:15–12:45 Artemij Keidan
Three more subjecthood features in Pāṇini’s tradition
SLIDES
12:45–14:00 Lunch
14:00–15:00 Plenary: Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson
Subjects in sign languages
SLIDES
16:00–18:00 Excursion (Boat tour of Ghent with cava)
19:30– Dinner (21 euros/person, cash bar at Carlos Quinto)

9 September

10:00–10:30 Coffee
10:30–11:00 Sergey Say
Grammatical relations in Russian: A view from the verbal lexicon
SLIDES
11:00–11:30 Leonid Kulikov
Subjecthood in Tocharian
SLIDES
11:30–12:00 Christine Grillborzer
Subject properties in change – The case of Russian
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00–13:30 Nurit Melnik
Psych-verbs and subjecthood in Modern Hebrew
SLIDES
13:30–14:00 Angelika Müth
Subjecthood in Armenian
SLIDES
14:00–14:15 Coffee
14:15–15:15 Plenary: Spike Gildea
Subject Properties: Theoretical and Diachronic Considerations
SLIDES
15:15–15:30 Coffee